240 
Psyche 
[September 
on hind part of disc of mesothorax; large yellow spots on 
axillae; scutellum and postscutellum pale yellowish red; the 
bulging impunctate metathorax pale ferruginous; parap- 
sidal furrows deep; tegulse testaceous with a large yellow 
spot; wings strongly reddened, blackish at apex; stigma 
and nervures dull ferruginous ; second cubital cell with slop- 
ing sides, but still very broad above, receiving recurrent 
nervure at middle; third cubital receiving second recurrent 
far from base, but distinctly before middle; anterior coxae 
red in front, the coxae otherwise black; femora, tibiae and 
tarsi entirely bright ferruginous; abdomen narrow, sub- 
cylindrical, the margins of the segments with stiff black 
hairs, but apex with thin pale hair ; first, fifth and sixth and 
base of seventh segment black above and below; second, 
third, fourth, and apical segment except base bright orange- 
ferruginous above and below; apex truncate, unarmed. 
New Caledonia: Bourail, May 22 (W. P. Cockerell). Type 
for the present in my collection. Allied to E . obtusidens 
Turner, 1919, from Noumea, New Caledonia. Dr. James 
Waterston kindly examined the type of E. obtusidens, in 
order to confirm certain points of distinction. He reports 
as follows: 
(1) Clypeal hairs. The longest and strongest blackish 
brown, the finer ones, especially those near edge, much 
paler. 
(2) Clypeus with nearly straight edge, but in the middle 
one fourth or one-fifth produced into a blunt triangular 
tooth. 
(3) Anterior coxae shining black. 
(4) Abdomen with only tergites 2 to 4 reddish; stern- 
ites are black or blackish. 
(5) Apex of abdomen; tergite black, with reddish 
bristles, sternites narrowly reddish edged at apex. 
(6) Abdominal tergites 2 to 5 fringed with short stiff 
black bristles, on 2 to 4 these bristles extend beyond the 
